This is perhaps more of a Linux answer than a Pidgin one, but have you tried su to another user?
> sudo su Louise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_(Unix) -Tres - [email protected] On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Louise Baldwin <[email protected]>wrote: > How can I get purple-remote to work through sudo? The scenario is that I > have a root cron job which automates several sequential tasks, some of > which must be run as the "Louise" user. The other scripts/commands work > fine using sudo, but purple-remote getstatus returns "No existing libpurple > instance detected" despite that there is in fact an instance of Pidgin > running for user "Louise" -- what is causing this discrepancy? > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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